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slyandthefamilybook · 5 months

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A NON-EXHAUSTIVE BUT NEVERTHELESS EXHAUSTING LIST OF NEO-NAZI AND WHITE SUPREMACIST DOGWHISTLES

since some of y'all apparently need a refresher course. as always, use your judement when deciding if it's a dogwhistle or just innocent usage of a number or symbol

NUMBERS

100% - 100 percent white

109 or 110 - A reference to the 109 countries that have expelled, in whole or in part, their Jewish populations. 110 refers to the hope that more countries will do so, usually specifically the United States. Often posted on its own as a reply, or phrased as a question (e.g. "If you were kicked out of 109 bars it's probably our fault")

1290 - A reference to the Edict of Expulsion of 1290, which expelled the Jewish population of England

13/50 or 13/52 or 13/90 - The supposed statistic that Black Americans make up 13% of the population yet commit 50% or 52% of violent crime, or 90% of interracial violence. Often posted on its own as a reply

14 - The Fourteen Words, a Neo-Nazi slogan

14/23 - A number representing the Southern Brotherhood, an Alabama prison gang

1488 - A combination of the Fourteen Words and Heil Hitler

C18 - Combat 18, a British neo-Nazi group

18 - The letters A (1) and H (8), standing for Adolf Hitler

21-2-12 - The Letters U (21), B (2), and 12 (L), standing for Union, Brotherhood, and Loyalty, the slogan of the Unforgiven, a Florida prison gang

23 - Often thrown up as a hand sign, with two fingers raised on one hand and three fingers raised on the other. Represents the letter W (23), standing for white

271,000 - A reference to the supposed fact that the Red Cross claimed only 271,000 people had been murdered in concentration camps. In reality, that number reported by the Red Cross only came from reports from 13 concentration camps (there were 23 main camps, plus a large number of smaller "satellite" camps)

88 - H (8) H (8), standing for Heil Hitler

9% - A number representing the percentage of the world's population that is white

SYMBOLS

((( ))) - Triple parentheses, or echo. Used by neo-Nazis to call out someone as Jewish

Iron Cross - A German military decoration

Sonnenrad (Sun Wheel)

Reichsadler (Imperial Eagle) - A blocky, art-deco eagle facing to the side. Variants exist, some facing right, some facing left. The Parteiadler (Party Eagle) has a slightly different design. The Reichsadler is usually clutching a wreath with a swastika, although this is sometimes left out to maintain plausible deniability

Totenkopf (Death's Head) - A symbol used by the SS

Wolfsangel (Wolf's Hook) - Used as the insignia of various Wermacht (Nazi Military) divisions

Wolfsangel (horizontal)

Odal Rune - From the Proto-Germanic "Othala" meaning heritage

Algiz Rune - A symbol used by German nationalists

Celtic Cross

"Broken Sun" Cross

Arrow Cross - A Hungarian nationalist party that was active from 1935-1945. The symbol has been re-appropriated by modern neo-Nazis

Valknot

EMOJI

🤑 Greedy Face Emoji - Used to refer to "greedy Jews"

💰 Money Bag Emoji - Used to refer to "greedy Jews"

🥸 Disguised Emoji - Used to refer to Jews because of the enlarged nose

🤥 Lying Emoji - Used to refer to Jews because of the enlarged nose

👃 Nose Emoji - Used to refer to Jews

🙋‍♂️ Raising Hand Emoji - Used for its resemblance to the Sieg Heil salute

✋ Raised Hand Emoji - Used for its resemblance to the Sieg Heil salute

o/ or 0/ - Used for its resemblance to the Sieg Heil salute

🐸 Frog Emoji - A reference to Pepe the Frog, a webcomic charcter co-opted by the alt-right

👌 Okay Symbol Emoji - A hand symbol co-opted by the alt-right. Sometimes said to resemble the letters WP, or White Power

🚪 Door Emoji - Refers to the fact that some of the gas chambers (such as the ones at Auschwitz) had wooden doors, and therefore could not have been airtight enough to contain the Zyklon B gas used to murder prisoners. In reality, many of the wooden doors were either replaced with airtight metal ones, or were made airtight with strips of felt that then deteriorated or were removed

🚿 Showerhead Emoji - Refers to the showerheads used to dispense Zyklon B gas in the gas chambers

⛽ Gas Pump Emoji - Refers to gas chambers

⚡⚡ Double Lightning Emojis - Used for their resemblance to the Siegrune (victory rune) badge worn by members of the SS (Schutzstaffel)

💀 Skull Emoji - Used for its resemblance to the Totenkopf (Death's Head) used by the SS

☠️ Skull and Crossbones Emoji - Used for its resemblance to the Totenkopf (Death's Head) used by the SS

WORDS/PHRASES

6MWE - Six Million Wasn't Enough. A call for further genocide against Jews

AKIA - A Klansman I Am

Annudah Shoah - A mockery of both the Shoah (Holocaust) and the fear of further genocide

Auschwitz had a swimming pool/rec center/maternity ward/etc. - An attempt to diminish the horror of concentration camps by making them seem more like labor camps with amenities

Blood and Honor - A neo-Nazi slogan

Blood and Soil - A neo-Nazi slogan

Blood Libel - Not a phrase used by the far right, but something they often believe in or claim. Blood libel is an antisemitic conspiracy theory stretching back hundreds of years. The original claim was that Jews used the blood of Christian babies to bake matzah (a ritual food eaten on Passover). It has since evolved into images of Jews drinking blood, kidnapping and killing non-Jewish babies, and conspiracy theories about harvesting adrenochrome

Bowlcut - A reference to white supremacist mass-murderer Dylan Roof

Cohencidence - A portmanteau of Cohen (a common Jewish last name) and coincidence. Used to refer to Jewish control (e.g. "All these companies are owned by Jews! What a Cohencidence!")

COORS - "Comerades of Our Racial Struggle"

Cultural Marxism - A conspiracy theory that Jews are intentionally weakening "Western values" in order to make countries like the United States more susceptible to communism. This was called Cultural Bolshevism in Nazi Germany

Da Shoah or Muh Shoah or Muh Holocaust - A mockery of the Holocaust

Day of the Rope - A day referenced in neo-Nazi book The Turner Diaries when all race traitors will be hanged

Degenerate - An insult based on the false theory that bad morals will cause human beings to regress along the path of evolution (to de-evolve). Used to describe groups, individuals, or ideologies

Early Life - A reference to the "Early Life" section of Wikipedia biographies, which will reveal that a person is Jewish or has Jewish ancestry

Every Single Time - Every time something bad happens, the perpetrator is Jewish

Featherwood - A term derived from racist prison subculture. A featherwood is a woman associated with a racist gang

FGRN - For God, Race, and Nation. A Ku Klux Klan slogan

The Fourteen Words - A neo-Nazi slogan. "We must secure the existance of our people and a future for white children"

The Frankfurt School - A school of sociology founded at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1923. Usually blamed as the originator of "Cultural Marxism"

Fren - Internet slang. A diminutive of "friend", used to diminish Naziism and make it seems more harmless. Often used in usernames to describe one's self (e.g. sad_fren_88)

Globalist - A person who desires connection between countries in terms of politics, trade, and travel. Used to scaremonger about Jews destroying countries by removing their borders

Gorillion - A mockery of the number 6 million, being the amount of Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust

Goy - Hebrew for "nation", used by Jews to refer to non-Jews/gentiles. Used disparagingly by neo-Nazis to suggest Jews view non-Jews as beneath them

Goyslop - Unhealthy food that Jews force non-Jews to eat to keep them weak

Groid - A shortening of "Negroid", an archaic terms used to describe Black people

Groyper - A follower of avowed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. A reference to the "Groyper" meme, a variant of Pepe the Frog

GSHW - Germany Should Have Won (i.e. won World War II)

GTKRWN - Gas the Kikes; Race War Now

HDKH - Hitler Didn't Kill Himself. A neo-Nazi theory that Hitler escaped Germany and fled to Argentina

John 8:44 - "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Part of Jesus' rebuke of his Jewish followers

Joo or Jooz - An intentional misspelling of "Jews" in an attempt to bypass censors or automatic content filters

Kate Hikes - A spoonerism of "hate kikes"

Kek - 4chan variation of "lol"

Kekistan - A fictional country imagined by white nationalists with a flag that resembles the Nazi battle flag

Khazar - A reference to the conversion of a group of Khazars (a Turkic people) to Judaism. Antisemites speculate that the entirity of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from these Khazar converts, and therefore have no historical, cultural, or genetic tie to the Levant. This has been proven false on multiple occasions

Kike - A racial slur against Jews

Lizard People or Reptilians - A conspiracy theory by far-right figure David Icke, claiming that world leaders are really reptilian aliens. Most people who believe this theory believe that the lizard people in question are the Jews

Magic Soil - A protest against the idea that people of one nationality can become people of another nationality simply by living in a country (i.e. "France doesn't have magic soil that turns Africans into Frenchmen")

Nicker - An intentional misspelling of the N word in an attempt to bypass censors or automatic content filters

Ns - Black people (as in the plural of the letter N)

NSDAP - Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The Nazi party, but using an acronym that is unfamiliar to most people

NS - National Socialist

Noticer - Someone who "notices" that Jews control the world

The Noticing - A mass movement of people "noticing" that Jews control the world

New World Order - A far-right conspiracy theory about Jews taking control over the world and implementing a single world government. Also used in conjunction with phrases like "world banks"

OFOF - One Front, One Family. Slogan of the neo-Nazi group Volksfront

ORION - Our Race Is Our Nation

Oy Vey - A Yiddish exclamation meaning "oh woe". Used by neo-Nazis to mock Jews

Pattern Recognizer - Someone who has recognized the "pattern" of Jews always being in control

Peckerwood - A term derived from racist prison subculture. A peckerwood is a man associated with a racist gang

Power Level - A memeification of far-right beliefs. The more fascist your beliefs, the higher your "power level"

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion - A 20th century Russian hoax claiming to be the minutes of meetings between Jewish leaders discussing how they will take control of the world

Pure Blood - Someone who is a pure member of the white race

Rabbi Smolett - A claim that Jews fabricate antisemitic hate crimes (a reference to actor Jussie Smolett who was accused of doing the same)

ROA - Race Over All

The Goyim Know - A phrase used by white supremacists acting like Jews who have discovered white supremacist activity, and are afraid that they've been found out. Often "The Goyim Know, Shut It Down", which adds the idea that Jews will prohibit any conversation that gets too close to the truth

The Red Cross - A reference to the supposed fact that the Red Cross claimed only 271,000 people had been murdered in concentration camps. In reality, that number reported by the Red Cross only came from reports from 13 concentration camps (there were 23 main camps, plus a large number of smaller "satellite" camps)

Tiny Hats or Tiny Hatted People - A reference to the Kippah or Yarmulke often worn by Jewish men

Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition - A fascist slogan warning against social progress and calling for a return to a prelapsarian (usually ethnocentric) paradise

Rubbing Hands - A reference to an antisemitic charicature called "The Happy Merchant"

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you're not allowed to criticize" - A quote often misattributed to Voltaire, which neo-Nazis use to decry claims of antisemitism as efforts to silence them. In fact, it's a quote from a neo-Nazi pedophile

Shabbos Goy - A non-Jewish neighbor of a Jew who can be asked to perform acts Jews are forbidden from doing on the Sabbath (e.g. turning of a light or turning on the heat). Used by neo-Nazis to claim someone is a slave to Jews

Sheeeiiit - An over-the-top representation of how "shit" is said with a Blaccent. Often used in memes declaring Black people to be less intelligent

Shekels - Jewish currency (from the Hebrew word for weight, similar to how British currency is called the pound. In reality, the plural of shekel is shkalim). The name has been adopted by the State of Israel for the NIS (New Israeli Shekel). "Shekels" is used by neo-Nazis to mock Jews as being greedy

Synagogue of Satan - An antisemitic term for Jews, stemming from the Chrsitian Bible

They or Them - When used to describe a nebulous group of undefined adversaries, these words almost always refer to Jews

They Cry Out in Pain As They Strike You - An antisemitic proverb claiming that Jews will make false cries of antisemitism while at the same time perpetrating atrocities

Troon - A slur against trans people, particularly trans women

Volk - German for "folk", or "kind". Used by neo-Nazis to refer to white people

We Wuz Kangz - A racist phrase ment to mock Black nationalists

White Genocide - The myth that a group of people (usually Jews) are conspiring to eliminate the white race through various means including immigration, intermarriage, and homosexuality

WP - White Power

WN - White Nationalist or White Nationalism

Wooden Doors - Refers to the fact that some of the gas chambers (such as the ones at Auschwitz) had wooden doors, and therefore could not have been airtight enough to contain the Zyklon B gas used to murder prisoners. In reality, many of the wooden doors were either replaced with airtight metal ones, or were made airtight with strips of felt that then deteriorated or were removed

Zio - An abbreviation of "Zionist". Used derogatorialy by neo-Nazis

WPRWS - 'Weimar Problems Require Weimar Solutions" (sometimes shortened to just "Weimar Problems" or "Weimar Solutions"). Prior to the rise of the Nazi Party, the democratic Weimar Republic was in financial crisis (the eponymous "Weimar Problem"). This was often blamed on the Jews. The "Weimar Solution" is Naziism

ZOG - Zionist Occupied Government, reflecting the belief that the United States government is controlled by Jews

#atlas entry #this took me several hours to compile so please give it a reblog #there are also a lot of ways nazis will mock Black or Jewish names but that's less dogwhistle-y and more foghorn-y #if you see someone say “lol 'Stein' 👃” and don't understand what they mean. I dunno that's on you man #also sorry for putting kike on here but you'd be shocked how many people I've met who have genuinely never heard it before #also the ADL website has a bunch more representing various prison gangs #but I feel like it can be overwhelming to know that 11 12 and 13 can all be racist symbols. I don't wanna make people jump at shadows #besides those are more likely to be worn as tattoos than displayed in someone's twitter bio #jews #jewish #judaism #nazis #neo nazis #neo-nazis #christofascism #far right #alt-right #white supremacy #white nationalism

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yoga-onion · 11 months

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Shuri Castle - Burning castle of the Ryukyu Dynasty (Ref)

Shuri Castle, the royal castle of the Ryukyu Dynasty, was once the political, economic and cultural centre of that maritime kingdom. The date of construction of Shuri Castle is not known, but it is thought to have been built in the late 13th and 14th centuries during the Gusuku period.

Until the end of the 16th century, the Ryukyu Kingdom remained independent in turbulent East Asia, as did Korea and Vietnam, but was invaded and ruled by the Satsuma clan (now Kyusyu, Japan), and became a vassal state in the early 17th century.

After several fires and war damage, and repeated rebuilding, the World Heritage Site Shuri Castle was once again destroyed by a sudden fire on 31 October 2019, which lasted about eight hours and destroyed nine buildings and historical heritage sites, including the main hall. It is currently being rebuilt with a view to restoration in 2026.

The first burning occurred in 1453 during the struggle for the throne that followed the death of King Shō Kinpuku of the 1st Shō dynasty (Shiro-Furi Rebellion), when the castle was completely destroyed. The second fire, in 1660, took 11 years to rebuild, and the third fire in 1709 destroyed the main, north and south halls.

After the Ryukyu Disposition following the establishment of Okinawa Pref. by Japanese Government in 1879, the main hall and other buildings of Shuri Castle lost their role as the seat of government and were sold to the Japanese Army's 6th Division (Kumamoto, Japan) as a military camp and then to Shuri Ward (later Shuri City), which used them as school buildings for girls' schools.

It was almost completely destroyed during the Battle of Okinawa (WWⅡ) in 1945 and the construction of the University after the war, leaving only a small portion of the castle walls and building foundations remaining.

Full-scale reconstruction was considered in the 1980s, and the restoration work, which took about 40 years, was completed in January 2019. In October of the same year, a mysterious fire destroyed the castle again.

Shuri Castle, which has been repeatedly persecuted and burnt down but continues to revive, seems to symbolise Ryukyuan culture itself.

首里城〜燃え続ける琉球王朝のお城（参照）

琉球王朝の王城、首里城はかつてその海洋王国の政治・経済・文化の中心にあった。首里城の築城年代は明らかではないが、13世紀後半から14世紀にかけてのグスク造営期の時代に築城されたと考えられている。

琉球王国は16世紀末まで、朝鮮やベトナムと同様に激動の東アジアで独立を保っていたが、薩摩藩 (現在の九州)の侵略と支配を受け、17世紀初頭に属国となった。

世界遺産でもある首里城は、数度の火災や戦災を経て、再建を繰り返してきたが、ついに2019年10月31日、約8時間にわたる突然の火災により、本殿を含む9つの建物や歴史遺産を焼失した。現在、2026年の復興に向け、再建中である。

1度目の焼失は1453年に第一尚氏の尚金福王の死後に発生した王位争い (志魯・布里の乱) であり、城内は完全に破壊された。2度目の焼失は1660年のことであり再建に11年の年月を要した。1709年には3度目の火災が起き正殿・北殿・南殿などが焼失した。

1879年の日本政府による沖縄県設置に至る琉球処分以後は、正殿など首里城の建物は政府の所在地としての役割を喪失し、日本陸軍の第6師団 (熊本) の軍営として、その後は首里区 (後の首里市) に払い下げられ、女学校の校舎として利用された。

1945年の沖縄戦や戦後の琉球大学建設でほぼ全壊し、城壁や建物の基礎の一部が残るのみであった。1980年代に本格的な再建が検討され、約40年の歳月をかけた修復工事が2019年1月に完了した。同年10月、謎の大火災により再び焼失した。

迫害や焼失を繰り返しながらも復活を続ける首里城は、琉球文化そのものを象徴しているようだ。

#syuri castle #burning castle #ryukyu kingdom #ryukyu #okinawa #history #culture #nature #art

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study-with-aura · 1 month

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Monday, March 18, 2024

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! I had a very good spring break week. I will miss volunteering at the mission, but hopefully I will spend time there over the summer in between camp, the summer trip, and my ballet intensive. This summer will be another busy one, but I still have 44 days left of studies and should focus on them to not get too far ahead of myself.

I am really enjoying the book I am reading. It is a little creepy, but that almost makes me want to read more so I can learn about the mystery of what is going on! The sequel was on my reading list for this year, so I had to read this one first so I understood any new information in the next book. If anyone is curious about my reading list, I utilize the local librarian guide for my age group. It helps me explore books and genres I may not normally read otherwise. To see my full list, you can follow me on Goodreads. The link is on my main blog page under "Navigate".

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Read about constructions + learned how to construct congruent segments and angles + practice + honors work

Lit and Comp II - Copied Unit 21 vocabulary + read chapter 38 of Emma by Jane Austen

Spanish 2 - Reviewed vocabulary (test tomorrow)

Bible I - Read Judges 10-11

World History - Reviewed key terms for new unit + read introduction to new unit + watched short documentary video on Mahatma Gandhi

Biology with Lab - Read and watched videos on creationist perspective of how life systems came to be

Foundations - Read more on security + completed next quiz on Read Theory + read an article about the propaganda campaign against public schools

Piano - Practiced for one hour

Khan Academy - Completed High School Geometry Unit 3: Lesson 8

CLEP - Completed Module 11.0 introduction video + completed Module 11 reading "Europe: 1918 to 1945" 13.1-13.5

Duolingo - Studied for 15 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Read pages 124-176 of House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Chores - Cleaned my bathroom + cleaned windows in my bedroom and in the study + took the trash and recycling out

Activities of the Day:

Personal Bible Study (1 Corinthians 15)

Volunteered 2 hours at the library

Ballet

Contemporary

Journal/Mindfulness

What I’m Grateful for Today:

I am grateful that I had a marvelous spring break.

Quote of the Day:

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

-Gandhi

🎧Four Sketches, op. 15 no 1: In Autumn - Amy Beach

#study blog #study inspiration #study motivation #studyblr #studyblr community #study community #study-with-aura

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theoutcastrogue · 7 days

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7+1 Classic American Pocket Knives

1) Toothpick, slipjoint folding knife, white plastic scales (shell knife, aka Handle Knife Patent), nickel silver bolsters, slender clip-point blade a.k.a. toothpick (not to be confused with the Arkansas toothpick, which is an ironically named humongous knife). Tang stamp "COLONIAL PAT No. 231064", 11 cm closed, 20th century (mid-20th, maybe?)

2) Fish knife, slipjoint folding knife, cracked marble celluloid handle with a fish-shaped shield, nickel silver bolsters, carbon blades: 1 clip-point and 1 saw/hook-remover/bottle-opener. Tang stamp "Imperial PROV. USA", 12.5 cm closed, c. 1946-1956.

3) TL-29 a.k.a. electricians knife, linerlock folding knife, rosewood handle with brass inset "TL-29" and lanyard ring, nickel silver bolster, brass liners, carbon steel blades: 1 spear-point and 1 wire-stripper/flat screwdriver. The name stands for "Tool, Lineman, number 29", originally from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Tang stamp on the ricasso "CAMILLUS NEW YORK", and on the blade "TO RELEASE PUSH CENTER LOCK TO LEFT", 9.5 cm closed, circa 1960s.

4) Trapper, slipjoint folding knife, dark red bone (peach seed jig) handle with nickel silver shield "CASE", nickel silver bolsters, brass liners, chrome vanadium carbon blades: 1 clip-point and 1 spey. A Case model #31950 CV. Tang stamp on main blade "CASE XX" and 8 dots for date, and on the spey blade "USA 6254 CV), 10.5 cm closed, 2022.

5) Engineers knife, slipjoint folding knife, jigged bone handle with steel shield "USA" and lanyard ring, steel bolsters and liners, carbon steel blades: 1 spear-point, 1 bottle-opener/flat screwdriver, 1 punch, 1 can-opener. Identical pattern with an ubiquitous camping knife, later adopted for the U.S. Army Engineers. Tang stamp "CAMILLUS CUTLERY CO. CAMILLUS N.Y. USA" (4 lines), 9.3 cm closed, 1942-1945.

6) Buck 110 a.k.a. "Hunter", lockback folding knife, ebony handle, brass bolsters, stainless steel blade. Tang stamp "BUCK 110 USA" and date symbol, 12.3 cm closed, 2018.

7) Barlow, slipjoint folding knife, derlin (synthetic) handle, nickel silver bolster with fancy scroll work, carbon steel blades: 1 clip-point and 1 pen-blade. A Schrade #206, a.k.a. "Grand-dad's barlow". Tang stamp "SCHRADE USA 206", 8.5 cm closed, 1976-1983.

+1) Hunting knife or "Bowie knife", full tang fixed blade knife, jigged bone handle, carbon steel blade. The outlier, neither American nor a pocket knife, but made for the American market and advertised as a "bowie-knife" *, with its iconic clip-point blade. Tang stamp on the ricasso "ALFRED WILLIAMS SHEFFIELD ENGLAND", and on the blade "EBRO" between two Maltese crosses, 22 cm total, circa 1890-1920.

* For collectors, a "bowie" is a knife made for carrying (as opposed to keeping in your kitchen or toolshed), for the American market (regardless of where it was manufactured, the most famous ones are indeed from Sheffield), and somewhat arbitrarily, from 1827 to 1865 (from the Sandbar Fight to the end of the American Civil War). A more generous date range goes to the end of the 19th century, from 1827 to 1900. Everything else is up in the air: it can be big or small, simple or fancy, fixed blade or folding, with a clip-point or dagger or any other blade pattern, and of any materials. Today most people associate the term with a large fixed blade knife with an intense clip-point blade, regardless of when and where it was made.

P.S. I'm missing a stockman knife, and I want very specifically a Case medium stockman with clip, spey and sheepfoot blades, and a nice bone handle (pattern stamp 6318SS).

#tools of the trade #folding knife #knife #bowie knife #trapper #engineers knife #tl-29 #trs #sheffield #england #usa #multitool #barlow #trc #trp

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flagwars · 8 months

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Historical Flag Wars Round 1

The first round of the Historical Flag Wars starts today! Which flag are you rooting for?

Here are the brackets for Round 1:

1. Republic of Rotuma vs. Sultanate of Sulu

2. Peru (May 1822) vs. Kingdom of Amber

3. Green Mountain Boys vs. Taipei, Taiwan (1981-2010)

4. Kingdom of Laos vs. Kingdom of Abemama

5. State of Deseret vs. Guilford Courthouse Flag

6. Mohanpur State vs. Attributed flag of Blackbeard

7. Nepal (1856-1930) vs. Empire of Brazil

8. Burma (1943-1945) vs. Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

9. Wiphala of Tupac Katari vs. Mamluk Sultunate (attributed)

10. Islands of Refreshment vs. Imperial State of Iran

11. Union Mark of Norway and Sweden vs. Kingdom of Prussia (1892-1918)

12. Jewish Combat Organization vs. Kingdom of Kandy

13. Kingdom of Manipur (1891–1907) vs. International Revolutionary People's Guerrilla Forces

14. Venice (1922-1977, de facto) vs. International Brigades

15. Sultanate of Zanzibar (1963–1964) vs. State of Muskogee

16. Maine (1901-1909) vs. Taymyr Autonomous Okrug

17. Tibet vs. Dutchy of Brittany

18. Ryukyu Kingdom vs. Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

19. Duchy of Milan vs. Republic of Yucatán

20. People’s Republic of Korea vs. Halliste Parish, Estonia

21. Jeju Province (1969–2009) vs. Republic of China (1912–1928)

22. House flag of Nedlloyd vs. Historical Mapuche Flag

23. Kingdom of Ireland vs. Starry Plough Flag

24. Royal standard of the Joseon Dynasty vs. Flag of David IV the Builder

25. Army of the Three Guarantees vs. Raven Banner

26. Iraq (1959–1963) vs. Republic of Formosa

27. Principality of Moldavia vs. Eureka Flag

28. Kingdom of Sikkim vs. Republic of Anguilla

29. Republic of the Rif vs. West Indies Federation

30. Bedford Flag vs. Ethiopian Empire

31. Rägavere Parish, Estonia vs. Unidentified Flag of the Kingdom of Benin

32. Comecon vs. Naval flag of the Duchy of Courland

#polls #flags #vexillology #history #historical flag wars #eyestrain #eye strain

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lonestarbattleship · 7 months

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October 1, 2023 Update from the Battleship Texas Foundation

A view from the dry dock's wing wall.

DRY DOCK TOURS

Dry Dock Tours until December. For more information please visit: battleshiptexas.org/drydock

The 8 AM tour getting a great look at one of the ship's keels and bragging rights on having 28,000 tons of battleship over their heads.

SHIP REPAIRS

TORPEDO BLISTERS - The new torpedo blisters are a slightly different design and square off at the bottom below the waterline. This design change will make the new blisters easier to maintain increasing their longevity. The torpedo blisters are now completely plated over.

View of the forward and midship starboard side. Note how the blisters abruptly end before curving under the hull, this is the main design change we've made which will reduce future maintenance burdens.

Stern end of the starboard torpedo blisters. The blisters are fully plated up now.

Steel draft marks being installed on the stern, with chalk markings for the marks that haven't been installed yet.

A lot of plating has been installed underneath the ship, between the keels. Most of this is difficult to photograph due to low lighting.

Draft marks installed on the bow (a matching set is installed on the opposite side).

A bulkhead repair in one of the ship's tanks. After hot work is done, the tank will be washed out as much as possible and coated.

COATING - The inside of the blisters, and the ship’s hull will be coated to protect against possible corrosion.

TANK CLEANING - Tanks inside the ship are being inspected, cleaned, and repaired if need be. Some will be coated with a marine coating to help prevent corrosion.

LEAK TESTING - All welds continue to be tested for leaks. They are done via vacuum box, dye penetrant, or magnaflux depending on the area.

SUPERSTRUCTURE REPAIRS - A lot of steel deck and structure is being replaced on the various levels of the ship’s superstructure. There are some very serious issues that have to be addressed before this area will be ready for tourism once again.

A reproduction splinter shield or "gun tub" to be installed above the Signal Bridge for a Mark 51 Gun Director.

The incorrect splinter shield or "gun tub" that has been cut off and is being replaced.

The opposite side incorrect splinter shield, which will also be cut off and replaced.

A look up from the Signal Bridge at the sheer volume of scaffolding in place for superstructure work.

AFT FIRE CONTROL TOWER - Work continues in the AFCT as the old grating that was installed in 1988 has been completely removed and replaced with a steel deck. Small repairs to the bulkhead are currently ongoing as the plan is to have it look as it did in 1945.

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On today's episode of what the absolute fuck, turns out the Dutch security service spent literally decades spying on Dutch holocaust survivors and the Dutch Auschwitz Committee, a support and advocacy group for concentration camp survivors.

They were marked as an extremist organization and a possible threat to society with "communist" sympathies. And this happened until the 1980s; reading the article, it's worse than I expected after hearing about it, and absolutely disgraceful. Like, they reported on memorial services for the holocaust, and sent informers along on memorial trips to concentration camps. Because these were obviously severe threats to Dutch society /s.

Links to the story in English, it's a pretty good summary of the main article in Dutch:

In Dutch, from the national news service, and the investigative article that broke the story, it's paywalled, so I'll put the text under a cut:

Leden van het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité jarenlang gevolgd door de veiligheidsdienst: ‘Niemand heeft dit ooit geweten’

Teun Dominicus23 december 2023, 03:00

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Joodse Amsterdammers die betrokken waren bij het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité, werden na hun terugkeer uit de kampen bespioneerd door de voorloper van de AIVD, blijkt uit onderzoek van Het Parool. Nabestaanden en het Auschwitz Comité zijn ontsteld. ‘Het feit dat je verslag doet van de mensen die stil kwamen staan bij hun familie die was afgeslacht, tart elk idee van beschaving.’

Berooid en beroofd: zo kwamen Joodse overlevenden van de vernietigingskampen in 1945 terug in Nederland. Familie en vrienden waren door de nazi’s vermoord. In hun huizen woonden vreemden die niet op hun terugkeer hadden gerekend. De gemeente Amsterdam presenteerde hun ook nog een erfpachtschuld voor de jaren die ze in de onderduik of kampen hadden gezeten. Kil en koud, was de ontvangst in het naoorlogse Nederland. Niemand had oog voor deze Holocaustslachtoffers.

Daar komt nu bij dat de Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst (BVD), de voorloper van de AIVD, Joodse Amsterdammers na terugkeer decennia scherp in de gaten heeft gehouden, zo blijkt uit archiefonderzoek van Het Parool. Vele Holocaustoverlevenden werden tot in de jaren tachtig door de dienst gezien als ‘extremisten’ en als een potentieel gevaar voor de democratie. Teruggekeerdenuit het kamp kwamen terecht in de kaartenbak van de veiligheidsdienst.

Lange tijd deed de BVD verslag van Holocaustherdenkingen: of die nou in het Joods Cultureel Centrum in Buitenveldert waren, in kamp Westerbork of op de Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats. Genoteerd werd wie aanwezig waren.

Marechaussee

Zo vertrok met een dag vertraging op donderdag 8 april 1965 van Schiphol een vliegtuig met Auschwitzoverlevenden naar de Poolse hoofdstad Warschau, zo blijkt uit het verslag van een informant die mee was op de reis. De groep van twintig personen reisde door naar het voormalige vernietigingskamp om daar aanwezig te zijn bij de twintigste bevrijdingsdag van het kamp. Kampoverlevende Jacques Furth legde er namens het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité een krans.

Op 13 april ging de groep ‘per autobus naar Krakau, kamp Majdanek en Lublin. Daar werden zoutmijnen, kerken, kastelen enz., bezichtigd’, aldus het reisverslag dat door de BVD is opgesteld.

Niet alleen de BVD bespioneerde het reisgezelschap. Zodra ze de douane op Schiphol waren gepasseerd, gaf de marechaussee reisgegevens door, onder vermelding van ‘lijst met personen die hebben deelgenomen aan de herdenking van de bevrijding van het concentratiekamp Auschwitz’, waarna de geheime dienst notities maakte voor de individuele dossiers.

Verzetsmensen over de vloer

Bestuursleden Jos Slagter en Annetje Fels-Kupferschmidt zijn twee van de mensen die door de BVD werden gevolgd. Samen waren zij opeenvolgend vanaf 1958 tot 1994 voorzitter van het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité.

Niemand van de generatie van de oprichters van het Comité leeft nog, maar sommige van hun kinderen wel. Bijvoorbeeld Chaja Polak. Geboren in 1941 was Polak twee jaar oud toen haar moeder Annetje Fels-Kupferschmidt en haar vader Hans Polak in april 1944 door de nazi’s werden opgepakt. Haar vader stierf in Dachau, maar haar moeder overleefde Auschwitz. De jonge Chaja bleef op het nippertje uit handen van de nazi's.

Ze heeft nu voor het eerst inzage in het BVD-dossier van Fels-Kupferschmidt en kan moeilijk geloven dat de veiligheidsdienst haar moeder in de gaten hield. “Zij kwam vooral op voor nazislachtoffers en hielp waar het kon,” zegt de inmiddels 82-jarige Polak.

Aan het gezin waarin ze opgroeide heeft ze warme herinneringen. “Thuis was veilig,” zegt ze. “Daar waren mensen die in het verzet hadden gezeten. Mijn tweede vader was niet-Joods en had in het verzet gezeten. Er kwamen veel verzetsmensen en Joden van over de hele wereld over de vloer: familie en vrienden die de kampen hadden overleefd.”

Dossiers vermelden wat het Auschwitz Comité tijdens vergaderingen besprak. Van alledaagse regelzaken – wie schrijft een brochure? – tot aan het opzetten van politieke acties. Zoals de protesten tegen de vrijlating van Willy Lages, de nazi die verantwoordelijk was voor de deportatie van 70.000 Joden. Een vergadering daarover vond in september 1966plaats bij bestuurslid Eva Tas thuis, in haar woning op de Amsteldijk. ‘Allen vonden het een schande, want deze man had tot aan zijn dood in de gevangenis behoren te blijven,’ schetst een informant de stemming binnen het comité.

Voor Polak is het wrang dat haar moeder is bestempeld als extremist, maar dat oorlogsmisdadiger Lages géén BVD-dossier heeft: ‘Dat zie ik als een heel groot onrecht.’

Inlichtingen van lokale politiekorpsen

Een andere zaak waar het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité zich hard voor maakte, was financiële tegemoetkoming voor Joodse overlevenden van de oorlog en nabestaanden. Pas in 1973, 28 jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog, kwamen zij in aanmerking voor een uitkering.

Met voorlichtingsbijeenkomsten lichtte het comité slachtoffers in over hun financiële positie. Op 25 april 1971 was er zo’n samenkomst in het Anne Frank Huis: een kleine vijftig mensen kwamen luisteren naar twee ambtenaren van de sociale dienst, aldus het BVD-verslag. Izak Stibbe, de penningmeester van het comité, vertelde daar dat hij ‘gedurende de oorlog in een aantal Duitse kampen was geweest’ en dat daardoor zijn gezondheid ‘geknakt’ was.

Voor zijn surveillancepraktijken kon de BVD ook rekenen op de politiekorpsen. Eva Furth, de secretaris van het Auschwitz Comité, zat op Bevrijdingsdag 1982 in een panel over ‘vrouwen in het verzet’, schrijft de inlichtingendienst van de Leidse politie aan de geheime dienst. De discussie was georganiseerd door het lokale 5 meicomité.

‘Dit is schandalig’

In het café naast het Namenmonument leest Jacques Grishaver voor het eerst hoe de BVD het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité heeft bespioneerd. Sinds 1998 is hij voorzitter van het Comité, op zijn revers zit de koninklijke onderscheiding die hij kreeg voor zijn inzet voor het Holocaust Namenmonument.

“Onder de aanwezigen veel Israëlieten,” leest hij zachtjes voor als hij de stukken onder ogen krijgt. Op tafel ligt het verslag van de Auschwitzherdenking in 1965 in de Haagse zaal Diligentia, met een lijst namen van Joodse aanwezigen. “Het is schandalig, eigenlijk.” Hij kijkt nog eens naar het blad. “Nee, het ís schandalig.”

“Niemand heeft dit ooit geweten,” vervolgt hij. “En als je het leest, is het eigenlijk om te huilen. Al die namen die je leest, dat zijn mensen die zo veel hebben meegemaakt. Ze hebben bijna allemaal hun familie verloren. En vervolgens werden ze als vijand van de staat in de gaten gehouden.”

“Ik denk dat dit aangeeft hoe men aankeek tegen Joden die waren teruggekomen. Ze hadden beter kunnen blijven en niet kunnen terugkomen. Dat is eigenlijk wat met deze dossiers wordt gezegd: vijfduizend Joden zijn teruggekomen en we hadden er eigenlijk niet op gerekend. Dat blijkt hier duidelijk uit.”

Communistische invloeden

De grote vraag is: waarom achtte de BVD het noodzakelijk het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité tientallen jaren te volgen? De AIVD laat desgevraagd schriftelijk weten niet in te gaan op vragen over individuele dossiers. De dienst wijst erop dat de BVD tijdens de Koude Oorlog onderzoek deed naar het communisme en dat ‘mogelijk onderzoek naar personen’ van het comité ‘in dat licht [kan] worden gezien’.

Blom en Slagter werden, als leden van de CPN, al voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de gaten gehouden door de Centrale Inlichtingendienst, de voorloper van de BVD. Beiden zaten tijdens de oorlog in het verzet, waren Joods, werden naar de kampen gedeporteerd en overleefden de Holocaust – Blom als enige van zijn familie, Slagters eerste vrouw werd in Auschwitz vermoord.

Als bestuurslid van de communistische verzetsstrijdersorganisatie Verenigd Verzet probeerde Blom via Slagter inderdaad invloed uit te oefenen op het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité. Het zette echter weinig zoden aan de dijk: steeds weigerden de niet-partijleden zich voor het karretje van de CPN te laten spannen, wist ook de BVD.

Grishaver vindt het onterecht dat het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité als communistische mantelorganisatie werd weggezet. “Ja, sommigen waren lid van de CPN, maar anderen ook niet.”

Hij wijst erop dat er door die beschuldiging lang weinig aandacht was voor het leed van de kampoverlevenden. Ook van het argument dat het optreden van de BVD ‘in de tijd’ gezien moet worden, moet hij weinig hebben. “Het waren andere tijden, maar het feit dat je van Auschwitzherdenkingen een verslag gaat maken, van de mensen die ernaartoe kwamen om stil te staan bij hun familie die was afgeslacht, om daar de BVD op te zetten, tart elk idee van beschaving. Dat is niet goed te praten, ook niet met de tijd.”

Als twintigjarige in het dossier

Aan het einde van het gesprek moet Chaja Polak bijkomen. Zij las dat de BVD gesprekken in de winkel van Cor Fels, haar tweede vader, afluisterde. Dat de dienst in 1958 Joodse communistische verzetsgroepen uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog in kaart bracht: ‘Joodse antifa-groeperingen’ staat erboven, gevolgd door namen van familie en vrienden van haar ouders, enkelen in Sobibor vermoord. En ze hoorde dat de BVD een dossier over háár heeft aangelegd: ze was amper twintig jaar oud toen ze in Israël familie ging opzoeken, een reis waar de dienst verslag van deed.

Maar uiteindelijk gaat het Polak niet om haar, maar om al die leden van het Nederlands Auschwitz Comité. “Ik vind dat al deze mensen,” zegt ze, verwijzend naar de bestuursleden van het comité, “die zich zo hebben ingezet om Auschwitz op de kaart te zetten en de wereld te laten weten wat daar is gebeurd, die zich hebben ingezet om de overlevenden financieel te steunen omdat ze na de oorlog voor het overgrote deel in armoede leefden, dat hun namen gezuiverd moeten worden van deze blaam.”

#jumblr #antisemitism

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On June 10, 1865, the world premiere of "Tristan and Isolde" by R. Wagner took place in Munich.

„Mild und leise wie er lächelt…“

Here are some of the first sopranos to have sung the role of Isolde over the years and contributed to the success of this work through their dedication.

Malvina Schnoor von Carolsfeld, (7 December 1825 – 8 February 1904), Danish-born Portuguese dramatic soprano.

Felia Litvinne (11 October 1860, Saint Petersburg – 12 October 1936, Paris) was a Russian-born, French-based dramatic soprano.

Italia Vasquez-Molina (1869-1945), Italian soprano.

Irma von Voggenhuber (17 July 1841 Budapest - 11 January 1888 Berlin), soprano.

Elsa Westendorf (1877-1918), German soprano.

Marie Wittich 27 May 1868 – 4 August 1931), German dramatic soprano.

Rosa Sucher (23 February 1849 – 16 April 1927), German dramatic soprano.

Berta Pester-Prosky (Frankfurt am Main, September 7, 1866 - Krefeld, December 27, 1922), German soprano.

Thila Plaichinger (14 March 1868 – 19 March 1939), Austrian soprano.

Katharina Klafsky (19 September 1855 – 22 September 1896), Hungarian dramatic soprano.

Margot Kaftal (1873 Warsaw - October 1942 in Italy), Polish soprano.

Johanna Gadski (15 June 1870/1872 – 22 February 1932), German dramatic soprano.

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M4 Sherman

The primary American tank of WWll. More than 50,000 Shermans were produced between 1942 and 1945.

SPECIFICATIONS (M4A3)

Crew: 5 (Commander, Loader, Gunner, Driver, and Assistant Driver) Speed (sustained, level ground): 26 miles per hour Engine: Ford GAA-V8 4-cycle, 8-cylinder (500 hp) Weight: 68,000+ pounds Armament: One 75 mm main gun; two .30 caliber machine guns; one .50 caliber machine gun

#sherman tank #us army #world war two #medium tank

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Konstantin Gorbatov (Russian, 1876-1945)

Vineyard in Capri 1923 oil on canvas 21 5/8 x 27 ½ in. (55 x 70 cm.)

Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town of Capri that is located on the island shares the name. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic...

#konstantin gorbatov #Capri #russian art #vineyard #post impressionism #art #cityscapes #mu art #mu #christies #30 art #30 notes

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What’s Out This Week? 7/19

We’ll see y’all at our Live Zine Reading on the 22nd!

Big Game #1 (of 5) - Mark Millar & Pepe Larraz The comics event of the summer is here! Okay, this is so top secret we can't even show you the main cover because it spoils something MASSIVE. Just trust us when we say that this is going to be the comic book event of 2023-and it's NOT what you're expecting. Does the crossover really go that wide? Yes, it does. BIG GAME pulls together KICK-ASS, KINGSMAN, NEMESIS, THE MAGIC ORDER, and ALL the Millarworld franchises in one special event!

The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed The World GN - Laurent-Frederic Bollee, Didier Alcante & Denis Rodier

On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the city of Hiroshima. Tens of thousands of people were pulverized, and everything within four square miles was instantly destroyed. A deluge of flames and ash had just caused Japan's greatest trauma and changed the course of modern warfare and life on Earth forever. The world was horrified by the existence of the bomb-the first weapon of mass destruction. But how could such an appalling tool be invented? In The Bomb, Didier Alcante, Laurent-Frédéric Bollée, and Denis Rodier have created an exhaustive and definitive work of nonfiction that details the stories of the unsung players as well as the remarkable men and women who are at the crux of its history and the events that followed.

Doom Breaker GN Vol 1 - Blue-Deep

Zephyr is the last human fighting evil in a world abandoned by the gods. After being slain by Tartarus, the Demon Lord, all of humanity seems lost. However, much to the sinister amusement of the gods, Zephyr is reincarnated to save humanity and avenge those he loves. Can Zephyr finally have his revenge against Tartarus and save the woman he loves, or is he doomed to repeat the past?

Frontera GN - Julio Anta & Jacoby Salcedo

As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price, and lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is ill-prepared for the unforgiving heat that is sure to arrive come sunrise. With the odds stacked against him, his one chance at survival may be putting his trust in something, or rather someone, that he isn't even sure exists. If you'd asked him if ghosts were real before he found himself face-to-face with one, Mateo wouldn't have even considered it. But now, confronted with the nearly undeniable presence of Guillermo, he's having second thoughts. As his journey stretches on, Mateo will have to decide exactly what and who he's willing to sacrifice to find home.

The Great Snake’s Bride GN Vol 1 - Fushiashikumo

For 500 years, a giant snake god has lived in the ancient mountain. Miyo, an unlucky young woman from the nearby village, has been offered as a tribute: she is to be the snake's bride. Miyo always feared that the enormous talking snake would devour her whole, but once she's taken in by the god, he treats her like a wife rather than a meal. His flicking tongue vibrates through gentle words, his powerful slithering body wraps around hers in an embrace. This god is kinder than his monstrous form implies, and Miyo thinks she could learn to appreciate the non-human form his love takes. What does it truly mean to be the bride of a beast?

Heart Eyes Complete Series TP - Dennis Hopeless & Victor Ibáñez

Sanity-eating monsters ended humanity. The unlucky few who survived now hide in the cracks of a broken world. And yet somehow, beneath the graveyard that used to be San Antonio, Rico met Lupe, the girl of his dreams. But how did she get here? And why is she smiling? No one survives out in the street. No one smiles where the monsters lurk.

Homicide GN Part 1 - Philippe Squarzoni & David Simon

Homicide, the celebrated true crime-book from the creator of HBO's The Wire, is reenvisioned in this first volume of a gritty, cinematic graphic novel duology. In 1988, journalist David Simon was given unprecedented access to the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. Over the next twelve months, he shadowed detectives as they took on a slew of killings in a city where killings were common. Only the most heinous cases stood out-chief amongst them, the rape and murder of eleven-year-old Latonya Wallace. Originally published in 1991, Simon's Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show Homicide: Life on the Streets and inspired HBO's The Wire. Now, this true-crime classic is reimagined as a gritty two-part graphic novel series.

Imitation GN Vol 1 - Kyoung-Ran Park

As a member of the obscure idol group "Tea Party," Ma-Ha dreams of becoming a big star one day. Little did she know that she'd go viral so soon...by embarrassing herself in a popular talk show! But as the saying goes, there is no such thing as bad publicity...right?

Impact Winter: Rook One-Shot - Travis Beacham & Andrea Milana

Hundreds of years before a comet hit Earth and created a cold, dark world ruled by vampires... A wandering Roman centurion saved a woman from being sacrificed by druids. Honor bound to return Fionnuir to her homeland, Rook embarked on a journey across ancient Britain, where all manner of human and inhuman creatures dwelled...but none more dangerous than the demon he'd sworn himself to.

Lovesick TP - Luana Vecchio

"Nature has a kind of innocent cruelty, while man... Why can't man's cruelty be called innocent?" In one of the most lurid corners of the dark web, subscribers pay a high price to be maimed, tortured, and killed by ruthless and irresistible dominatrix DOMINO. This is what they call love in the LOVESICK CLUB. But as Domino faces emerging threats and mounting pressure from a needy audience, what price will she have to pay for success in this literally cutthroat world? And what will she have to become to survive? LUANA VECCHIO invites you into a digital underworld of blood and neon to explore the limits of consent, love, and idolatry in one of the most erotic and extreme stories in recent years!

Marvel Comics: A Manga Tribute GN

Experience a fresh take on the Marvel Universe with this collection of stunning illustrations from over twenty exceptional Japanese artists, including Yasuhiro Nightow, Akira Himekawa, Peach Momoko, Yusuke Murata, and Yoshitaka Amano. Marvel Comics: A Manga Tribute explores Marvel's rich and enduring legacy as a pop-culture phenomenon by paying homage to its most iconic characters and beloved stories. The book features a range of unique artwork, collected for the first time, celebrating characters from across the multiverse. A must-have for fans of Marvel Comics and Japanese art alike!

Mika & The Howler GN - Agata Loth-Igaciuk, Berenika Kolomycka & Crank!

Meet Mika! Mika is a young explorer who faces familiar-yet-not-fully known objects and obstacles around her house. Today's newest challenge? The "howler" that roams her living room and hallways sucking up dust bunnies and even her socks! But the howler isn't as dangerous as it appears, and young Mika is soon brave enough to face it. The first in the series of books for the youngest comics readers, enjoy the sweet, simple, and delightful Mika and the Howler.

Misfit Mansion GN - Kay Davault

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends meets Hilda and the Troll in this spooky and sweet middle grade graphic novel about a monster girl who sneaks out of her foster home and into a human town in search of a forever family but finds more than she bargained for. Despite her monstrous appearance, Iris has never felt like she belongs in a mansion filled with kelpies and gorgons and unicorns. She longs to find a family. Unfortunately, she and her housemates are trapped in a "foster home for horrors" run by former paranormal investigator Mr. Halloway. So, when a human boy named Mathias breaks the house's sealing spell, Iris and her companions are set free upon the town of Dead End Springs. What Iris doesn't know is that Mathias is also a paranormal hunter (the kind who seeks to capture and destroy the horrors), or that there are other dangers ahead. As Iris searches for a home, she makes human friends, explores a brand-new world... and stumbles upon a dark secret that Halloway has kept locked in the basement of the house. Will this long-slumbering mystery destroy the family Iris so desperately seeks?

Offshore Lightning GN - Saito Nazuna

Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. Offshore Lightning collects Saito's early work as well as two recent graphic novellas "In Captivity" (2012) and "Solitary Death Building" (2015), both focused on aging and death.

Pool Boys #1 - Josh Trujillo & Josh Cornillon

Pool Boys welcomes you to the interdimensional Solitaire Resort. This steamy romance focuses on found love, fleeting connections, and the fun we have along the way. Featuring pinups by Sina Grace, Luciano Vecchio, Jacoby Saucedo, and more, with a cover by David Talaski.

Project Arca: Into The Dark Labyrinth HC - Romain Bennasaya & Joan Urgell

In the not-too-distant future, the planet Earth has been destroyed, its orbit withering and its citizens desperate to escape to the stars. The solution? The Arca, massive vessels bound for the distant promised land of Leonis. When the passengers of Arca III awaken from their long intergalactic journey, they realize they're not in Leonis. Not only that, their journey has taken much longer than the planned two hundred years, and has landed them in a starless, seemingly endless place. Eric Rives, the ship's second-in-command, and his partner Jia Tang are sent on an exploratory mission to investigate the dark labyrinth that surrounds them... but what they find is beyond belief.

Scrapper #1 (of 6) - Cliff Bleszinksi, Alex De Campi, Sandy Jarrell & Juan Ferreyra Blade Runner-style action mixes with big emotions as stray dog Scrapper and his buddy Tank fight for justice against the totalitarian forces of a post-apocalyptic domed city. But when the fight comes to his home, Scrapper will face losing what's most important to him-and gain a terrifying truth in the process. (Don't worry, Mom. The dog doesn't die.)

Star Wars Inquisitor: Rise Of The Red Blade - Delilah S Dawson

When the Jedi Order falls, the Inquisitors rise.. From the aftermath of Order 66 comes a new group of former Jedi, each with their own reason to serve the Empire under Darth Vader. Among them is Iskat, who survived the destruction of her old Order to claim a new destiny in the Force. Iskat joins the Inquisitors in the hope of uncovering her hidden past that the Jedi refused to share with her.

Video Game Of The Year SC - Jordan Minor & Dan Ryckert

Pong. The Legend of Zelda. Final Fantasy VII. Rock Band. Fortnite. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For each of the 40 years of video game history, there is a defining game, a game that captured the zeitgeist and left a legacy for all games that followed. Through a series of entertaining, informative, and opinionated critical essays, author and tech journalist Jordan Minor investigates, in chronological order, the innovative, genre-bending, and earth-shattering games from 1977 through 2022. Minor explores development stories, critical reception, and legacy, and also looks at how gaming intersects with and eventually influences society at large while reveling in how uniquely and delightfully bizarre even the most famous games tend to be.

Wanted 20th Anniversary Edition #1 - Mark Millar & J. G. Jones Celebrate 20 years of Millarworld this month with this special gold-logo edition of the comic that started it all, featuring the reprinted first issue of WANTED itself alongside exclusive interviews, sketches, and behind-the-scenes material! Learn how WANTED went from the page to the screen in record time and set a course for not only the Angelina Jolie movie, but the Netflix empire that came after.

Whatcha snagging this week?

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As a lesson in history, here is Battleship Yamato, Japan’s “mascot” in WWII.

Yamato being a word for the “Japanese Spirit or Resolve” as well as being the name of a region and an ethnic group. At 263 meters long and 56 meters tall, this 72.000 ton monolith was the biggest warship ever built in all of recorded history. It is also considered to be one of the most colossal wastes of money in modern civilization. That’s right, at the cost of 5 to 8 billion dollars today, this ship was almost never actually employed and ultimately sank while protecting the homeland near Kyushu. It was believed that as long as the ship sailed, Japan would win the war. Having sunk in April of 1945, August was just around the corner in declaring Japan’s defeat and the end of World War II. With a total of 9 main guns capable of firing 1.4 ton shells at 40 meter distances, and 206 varying guns including machine guns to complete the package, this ship had two massive disadvantages. One being that it could not fire below a certain angle, and was highly vulnerable to underwater attack. That, alongside Japan’s terrible team work when it came to navy and aerial forces led to its downfall. However, credit goes where credit is due, this ship did not go down without a fight. It took 300 American planes, 20 torpedoes, 6 bombs and more to sink it. It is believed that continuous strikes detonated much of its ammunition, resulting in a blast that killed over 3000 people (along with the drowning). Finally, Japan was one step behind America’s military advances, still having to calculate the math by hand, while America had computers.

Today, you can visit the Kure Maritime Museum, to see salvaged pieces of this ship, in Kure, Hiroshima.

#wwii #japan #history #world war ii #battleship yamato #starcloud posts

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fauxkaren · 4 months

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Gyeongseong Creature - 7/10

This drama is uh... pretty damn dark. But it's very good. It's not a perfect show because I think the pacing leaves a lot to be desired (the middle episodes all take place over the course of one night and it makes the show feel like it's dragging, imo). But as a whole, the show explores some really interesting concepts.

What really makes this show good is the setting. The setting is what drives a lot of the most interesting themes. The show is set in the final months of WW2 during the Japanese colonial period in Korean. The show takes real things that were happening at this time period (experimentation on humans and the push to develop weapons that could win the war) as a backdrop for a fictional experiment that explores questions about humanity. I'd argue that the show's thesis is that it is our relationships to other people that make us human. The love and responsibility we feel towards others is what defines us.

OK SO. The actual plot of the show. Tae-sang is a rich man who owns a pawn shop. He stays out of politics (even though one of his friends is one of the people fighting for Korean indpendenced) and is just concerned with making money and connections with powerful people. One day the Japanese police commissioner strong arms Tae-sang into finding his missing mistress. At the same time sluths Chae-ok and her father are chasing a lead on her mother who has been missing for 10 years. Plotlines collide and it all leads to Onseong Hospital.

Onseong Hospital has an underground military lab for the Japanese military where they have been conducting experiments on Koreans in an attempt to turn them into a human weapon that can be used in the war. (Keep in mind that this is set in spring 1945 so... yeah you can see why the Japanese military is desperate to find something that will give them an edge in the war.) The do eventually achieve success and turn one of the subjects of the experiment into a massive and deadly creature (the creature that gives the show its name). Can the creature be tamed? What does the existence of the creature mean for humanity? Will the main characters even survive?

Allegedly there is going to be a second season and I think a second season could potentially turn this into an 8/10 or 9/10 series but for now I think there is a bit of untapped potential that keeps the show from being truly great.

#karen watches kdramas #gyeongseong creature

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It was YEARS ago, but I remember seeing a headcanon that said basically that a nation person appearing was treated like an omen or premonition. Like America appearing instead of several colony personifications or like you said there just being Ita and Romano. A connected headcanon I've seen is that the nation people themselves occasionally get premonitions of future major events, like I think I remember seeing art of America getting a premonition of the atomic bomb being made.

That's cool!! I also sort of used the same headcanon in my fic about Germany's birth, although I think in the revised version I posted on AO3 I cut out a small part where this premonition aspect was more prominent.

I think Himaruya himself isn't too sure about this aspect. The problem is that, since Hetalia was born as something random and wasn't meant to have that much of a lore compared to how it later turned out, even he as the author has to "rebuild lore aspects" in retrospect, trying to match together the puzzle pieces he had already scattered on the table. Like, the existence of two Italies out-of-universe was merely called by the need to have a contraposition between the surrendering South that fundamentally switched to Allies after the armistice of September 8 1943, and the North which was still part of the Axis under the name of Italian Social Republic (or Republic of Salò), fundamentally a Nazi-German puppet State. This also explains why Himaruya thought of two Italies instead of three, despite Italians culturally, historically and geographically perceive Italy as divided in three parts: North, Center and South. The fact that Hima thought of Feli and Romano as circa "from Rome upwards" and "from Rome downwards" is visually what Italy looked like after September 1943, before the Allies and the Italian Resistance started their chasing to push Nazis further and further up in their retreat. Rome was considered theoretically an open city, but de facto it would still be subject to strict German control until early June 1944, when the Americans finally managed to enter Rome and were met with the Romans' enthusiastic support. Italian Social Republic, retreating more and more to the North, lasted from September 8 1943 to April 25 1945 (which would be celebrated in Italy as a National Holiday from then on), when it fell and Italy as a whole was liberated from Fascism.

This is also the reason why Feli and Romano's characters were initially established to respectively like and dislike Germany. Romano criticizing Feli for hanging out with Germany and Japan was most likely inspired by this. But I digress.

The point is, since many of the characters' traits (especially in regards with the main cast) are based on the Countries' geopolitical behaviors during WW2, all the Nationverse lore that Himaruya came up with afterwards was sort of binded by this and so the lore comes off as inevitably a bit contradictory, with different scenarios that fit very well to describe the lore of certain characters but not others. Each needs their own specific pair of shoes that rarely fits anyone else, don't they? :O

So like, I do think the Italies having been babies for so long miraculously fits well if we think of them as the embodiment of the 'Italian sentiment' as a whole rather than singular pre-unitary States ... And perhaps Feli was only mistakenly believed to be Venice, for instance. It'd have indeed caused Venetians a lot of thoughts and self-criticism to see their little personification never growing up no matter how flourishing the Republic of Venice would get! :O

... But I guess this explanation wouldn't work at all when it comes, for instance, to Germany since the pre-unitary German States are established characters, albeit rarely used by Hima. Though I don't know Germany's history in much detail so maybe some stretchy explanation could be given here too ... Speaking of which, the very existence of the Kingdom of Genoa already messes up my view on the baby Italies' lore but shhhh. Man, I really wonder if Hima ever put a lot of thought on this, or if he already decided there's no escape to contradictions and he's just rolling with it now. Tbh I wouldn't blame him at all, it's impossible for all of the lore to make sense since Hetalia wasn't born with it in mind but was built on the go little by little, most likely.

... And I know even less about American History, but I think it' makes'd make sense that the personifications of colonies never existed because from early on, people sailing to America had in mind to built a 'better somewhere'. Hence they all had the same, unifying ideal in mind, even though they had differences and even contrasts with each other based on how they wanted their 'better somewhere' to be like.

Nations getting premonitions of future sometimes would also be an interesting thing to explore!

#sorry I just can't help but write too much everytime haha//#hetalia #aph italy #aph italies #ask #aph america #ary spoke

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